{"id":967589,"date":"2024-05-30T19:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967589"},"modified":"2024-05-30T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:29:46","slug":"votes-from-missing-ballot-box-already-audited-iec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/votes-from-missing-ballot-box-already-audited-iec\/","title":{"rendered":"Votes from missing ballot box already audited: IEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission (IEC) says it is eager to retrieve a lost ballot box.\u00a0The box in question was reported missing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>National General Manager of Operations at the IEC Granville Abrahams says the box went missing after being transported from a Ward 14 voting station in uMhlathuze in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has however reiterated that all votes in the box in question were already counted, captured, and audited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ballots counted ballots that had already been counted and recorded through result slips,\u201d Abrahams says.<\/p>\n<p>He would not be drawn into whether the incident constituted negligence saying the IEC would probe the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Electoral Commission appeals to citizens in and around Ward 14 uMhlathuze, in KwaZulu-Natal, to be on the lookout for an IEC branded ballot box that went missing in transit from the voting station Matamzana Dube School in VD 43412767, KZN282, uMhlathuze, to the municipal\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lTA8FXpDaB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/lTA8FXpDaB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IEC South Africa (@IECSouthAfrica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IECSouthAfrica\/status\/1796243086294626672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Electoral Commission (IEC) says it is eager to retrieve a lost ballot box.\u00a0The box in question was reported missing on Thursday. National General Manager of Operations at the IEC Granville Abrahams says the box went missing after being transported from a Ward 14 voting station in uMhlathuze in KwaZulu-Natal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,1558],"class_list":["post-967589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-electoral-commission-iec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}